it's not perfect, some keys are not quite aligned and so are harder to press than they should be, but it's leagues ahead of trying to use it as a collection of loose parts on the bench
our wife is making a shell for the gizmo (she's better at fusion than we are) and hopefully we'll have a test print tomorrow
not being able to hold it off a table to use thumbs to type has been a major hindrance in actually using it
HUGE step forward
i now have Stefan's basic running on the gizmo with full graphic capabilities of the monochrome 128x64 display and implemented a FatFSUSB driver so i can save files and transfer them to a computer
gave up on pybasic on top of circuitpython, have now been porting stefan's tinybasic 2 to the gizmo
some text printing and scrolling is still bad but this is slowly becoming a much more functional basic machine
guhh i would really have liked if this grove connector wasn't on this side of the board, probably going to remove it and solder straight to pads
the height (and the added width if i was using a grove cable) would make designing a case around it awkward
i'm releasing microDrummo into the wild after abandoning it for a year and running out of interest due to memory limitations of the M5 Cardputer
oh nevermind!
went to check on a dumped BBC copy of the game (it has a fancy title screen, perhaps usborne published it as a disk at some point, or a superfan made a very fancy version?) and the behaviour i thought was a parser bug is there just as on my conversion
well, time to test play it through then :)
fwiw the parser on this is equal parts extremely clever and extremely jank - only the first 3 letters of a command are parsed
yes part of the typos keeping it from working were here 😅
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flirting good but get at least acquainted first?
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